Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 267 Humanoid Dementors?
Perhaps it was because the surrounding temperature was too low or because he was too excited, but Benjamin's body was trembling slightly.

After a moment's hesitation, he pulled his wand from his pocket.

Although this guy in front of me who can lower the temperature around him looks like a human child, who can guarantee that he is not transformed from some terrible monster?

Behind Benjamin, a girl saw this and quickly covered her mouth with her hands.

She felt a little bit sorry and even wanted to reach out and grab Benjamin to stop him from attacking minors.

Benjamin turned around and gave the girl a gesture to keep quiet, then continued to face the child who was still taking deep breaths.

"It's okay. I'll just use the petrification spell and the stun spell. This way, even if the child is really a human, I can ensure his safety as much as possible."

Thinking of this, Benjamin prepared to raise his wand to cast the spell.

However, just as he had this thought, the child in front of him turned around and looked at him.

This was the first time Benjamin saw the child's face, but just this one glance gave him goose bumps all over his body. The child in front of him had no face!
The child's face was completely bare where his eyes, nose and ears should have been, with only a mouth.

No! That's definitely not a mouth!

It was a black hole, a black hole that was constantly spinning and absorbing something!
"Giggle..."

Benjamin's teeth began to chatter. At this moment, he felt as if he was in the middle of winter, and his whole body was cold!

But what was strange was that the faceless monster in front of them seemed to be even more afraid of them.

It quickly turned around and started running, as if trying to escape through another exit of the alley.

'It's about to run away! Stop it!'

Benjamin gritted his teeth, raised his wand and was about to cast a spell.

However, the faceless monster seemed to be able to predict his thoughts. Before he chanted the spell, he turned back again and took a deep breath.

Benjamin watched as the black vortex in the faceless monster's mouth suddenly accelerated, and the next moment, the temperature around it dropped sharply!

At the same time, Benjamin felt as if something was being taken away from his body, which made him feel weak and cold and wanted to lie down and sleep.

Everything around me darkened.

This feels so familiar!
Dementors!
This guy is a Dementor!
Benjamin roared with all his remaining strength:
"Call the gods to protect you!"

A ball of silver-white light suddenly exploded and turned into light bands that wrapped around his body and the bodies of his teammates.

The faceless monster seemed very afraid of those light bands. When it saw several light bands coming towards it, it quickly closed its mouth. Then its facial features began to emerge, and the black hole-like mouth was replaced by a pale small mouth.

This is a fairly presentable Asian face. If the stains could be washed away, it could even be considered good-looking.

But the expression on this face at this moment was one of fear. He screamed silently twice, then turned around and started running away.

"stop!"

Benjamin shouted weakly. Although his body temperature had gradually recovered as the child shut up, he was still very weak and could not catch up with the child who was walking briskly in front of him.

After struggling to take two steps, he gave up the idea of ​​chasing when he saw that he really couldn't catch up with Benjamin, and turned to look at his companions.

At this moment, his companions and the drug addicts in the alley had all fainted, as did the couple who were doing the bad thing just now. The two skinny guys were even still connected until they fainted.

"Damn bastard!"

Benjamin cursed, fumbled in his modified deep pocket for a while, took out a bottle of slightly turbid translucent liquid and took a sip cautiously.

After that, he hesitated for a moment and gave some to each of his teammates.

A person who has fainted cannot control the amount of water he drinks, so when all teammates have been fed, the glass bottle will be empty.

Looking at the empty bottle, Benjamin felt heartbroken.

He prepared a lot of potions for this hunting competition, all using his own money (the potions made from the materials given to you in the Advanced Potions class need to be handed in), and this bottle of recovery potion is considered to be quite expensive among them.

Of course, being expensive also has its advantages.

Just a few minutes after drinking the potion, Benjamin felt that his body had recovered a lot, and at least he could move around without any problem.

And his teammates gradually woke up.

The attack by the faceless monster just now obviously frightened them. One of the two girls burst into tears after waking up, and the other one also had tears in the corners of her eyes, but she gritted her teeth to not let the tears flow out. Instead, she squatted on the ground and comforted the crying girl.

"I quit! I want to go home! Now!"

The girl said while crying.

As soon as these words were spoken, the girl who was patting her on the back suddenly froze. She looked at the crying girl in surprise and bit her lips tightly with her teeth.

"Okay then, I'll have Hilary take you back when you recover."

Benjamin said.

He understands this girl very well.

This girl's family is very well-off, and it was this girl who paid for the rent of their large apartment in the East District.

It's normal for such a rich lady to want to give up halfway.

This is not to say that children of rich people are timid, unwilling to take risks and unable to endure hardships. It’s just that because they are rich, they have many paths to choose from and don’t have to work as hard as he does.

The girl probably really didn't want to continue this dangerous game. After getting Benjamin's permission, she quickly wiped the tears from her face, refused the escort from the girl named Hillary, and limped out of the alley.

The atmosphere in the alley grew dark, and the tears that Hillary had been trying so hard to hold back finally flowed down.

After an unknown amount of time, Benjamin's voice suddenly rang out in the alley. "This is a competition. The winner can get the reward promised by Mr. Townley and make further progress with it." Benjamin looked very tired, and his voice became extremely hoarse. "But this competition is not like the exams in our school, where there are professors protecting you. In this competition, someone might die. So... if any of you want to quit, I will agree to it, and I will never look down on you."

As soon as these words were spoken, several people showed hesitation on their faces.

But Benjamin was waiting for them to say that they were about to withdraw, so he continued:
“But please remember that unlike Kylie who just quit, we don’t have rich parents, some of us don’t even have parents!

It doesn't matter if Kelly messes up this competition. She has a way out. Even if she achieves nothing in the wizarding world, she can still return to the Muggle world to inherit the family property. But what about us?

Can we go back?"

Benjamin's eyes swept back and forth across everyone's faces, as if questioning them.

The next moment, he roared with a ferocious expression:
"We can't go back! Understand?

Nowadays, even fast food restaurants require you to have a high school diploma to recruit waiters! What can we do with just an elementary school diploma?

I’m afraid that in the end, he will have to rely on government welfare like those hooligans I just saw on the street!
Do you want to live like this? ! "

The roar just now made Benjamin's face flushed. He gasped and coughed, and after a long while he opened his arms expressionlessly and said:

"Have some self-awareness, our friends. What those purebloods said is absolutely right. We are a group of mudbloods! If we, the mudbloods, want to succeed, we must seize every opportunity and fight with our lives!
The above is what I want to say.

If you think what I just said makes sense, then I beg you not to leave, stay and help me, it is also a chance for you to win!"

After saying that, Benjamin bowed deeply to everyone and did not stand up for a long time.

Those boys and girls who were originally a little hesitant were now shaking with excitement as if they had just been injected with chicken blood.

Seeing that no one had suggested to quit for a long time, Benjamin straightened up and put a smile on his face again.

Because he knew that he had succeeded. He had successfully stabilized the team that was on the verge of collapse.

"Okay, since no one wants to quit, let's have a good talk about what that thing was just now. And what attitude should we take towards it."

The team members who had just finished drinking chicken soup were all very excited, but they had not lost their minds. After hearing about Benjamin's culture, they all turned their eyes to Hillary.

"Ahem! I've never seen that monster before. It should be a supernatural creature that has not been discovered yet, or it may be a monster created by some dark wizard through illegal biological experiments."

As soon as Hillary said this, the team members showed disappointment. Hillary was the best student among them in Magical Biology and Defense Against the Dark Arts Theory classes, and was known as the Biological Encyclopedia in Hogwarts.

Benjamin invited her to join the team with the intention of learning about the weaknesses of some dark magic creatures he had never seen before, but now even she didn't know the identity of the faceless monster, which was a bad thing.

But Hillary hadn't finished her words yet. She continued:

"I personally prefer the latter, because its behavior patterns show many characteristics of Dementors. And its appearance is almost exactly the same as that of humans, so I speculate that it should be a combination of Dementors and humans, that is, a human-shaped Dementor.

That way we can use the same methods we use against Dementors on it, such as the Patronus Charm."

"What evidence do you have?" asked a young man nearby.

“First of all, you should have felt it when the faceless monster attacked us just now. That feeling is very similar to being attacked by a Dementor.

Secondly, I saw Captain Benjamin cast the Patronus Charm before he passed out, and the faceless monster seemed to hate the Patronus Charm very much and ran away directly. Isn't that right, Captain?"

After Hillary finished speaking, she turned her gaze to Benjamin, and when he nodded, she continued:
"The final and most direct evidence is them."

Everyone looked at the drug addicts Hillary was pointing at, all confused.

"As we all know, Dementors live by devouring the happy emotions of humans. Do you think these poisonous insects are happy? Or do you think they are happy when they are sucking?"

"You mean, that thing feeds on the high emotions these drug addicts feel when they're high."

Benjamin used an affirmative sentence and nodded after he finished speaking.

What Hillary said made sense. These drug addicts were indeed quite happy when they were having fun, and judging from the initial behavior of the faceless monster, it was indeed absorbing their happy emotions.

Moreover, there is another advantage to the joyful feeling of sucking these poisonous insects, which is that you don’t have to worry about accidentally sucking them stupid or killing them.

Because these drug addicts look a little neurotic to ordinary people, and even if they are sucked to death, others will just think they have overdosed on drugs.

D-suckers and Dementors are a perfect combination!
Suddenly, Benjamin seemed to remember something and said to everyone:

"It is now basically certain that the faceless monster has the weaknesses and abilities of the Dementors, but I would like to add that when I was fighting that monster just now, it interrupted my spells several times just when I was about to attack, so I strongly suspect that it also has some kind of precognitive ability or mind-reading ability. Of course, this may also be a coincidence, but we still need to be careful."

"These are not big problems. Even if it has the ability to read minds or predict knowledge, the limitations of this ability must be very large. It cannot be used without limit. As for the Dementor ability, it is even less of a problem. All of us here know the Patronus Charm, so it is not difficult to trap it."

The brown-haired young man who initially informed Benjamin stood up and spoke.

His words were immediately agreed upon by others, and everyone spoke up to reconcile.

Seeing that everyone's emotions were rising again, as if they were about to fight the faceless monster to the death, Benjamin walked out and waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

For a moment, there was silence.

Seeing this, Benjamin said, “Although the other party’s ability is not strong, to be on the safe side, I suggest that we still collect intelligence, and the best source of intelligence is…”

He didn't continue speaking, but looked at the poisonous insects in the alley.

"Will this work? These people are very smooth-talking and will definitely not tell the truth."

Benjamin showed a mysterious smile and said, "It will definitely work!"

After saying that, he pulled out a pendant from his neck. Hanging on the pendant was a small glass jar filled with liquid.

"Is this..."

"Yes, truth serum!"

(End of this chapter)